Police/Courts

No one was injured when a truck towing a trailer with another vehicle on it rolled over at the intersection of County Road 326 and U.S. Highway 27 at 3:54 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 10. Responding to the crash were the Levy County Department of Public Safety Station 11 in Morriston and Rescue 10 in Williston, the Levy County Sheriff's Office and the Florida Highway Patrol. The full-size pickup truck was in the westbound ditch.

One person was transported to Gainesville for medical treatment following a two-car crash on State Road 121 north of County Road 331A at 2:43 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 13, according to a Levy County Department of Safety press release.

The drivers involved in the accident sustained minor injuries, but one, Ha Young Hahn, 21, of Gainesville, was transported to Shands Hospital in Gainesville by the LCDPS.

A Keystone Heights woman died and a man suffered critical injuries when the car they were in left County Road 341 and traveled off the road until the driver's side hit a tree on Friday at about 1 p.m., according to a Florida Highway Patrol press release.

It's probably more than anyone in Bell, population 400, could imagine happening — eight people, six of them children, shot to death in a murder suicide. But Gilchrist County Sheriff Robert "Bobby" Schultz III said while the children of the community will be devastated by the news, the community will pull through.

The 1st District Court of Appeals agreed with felon Allen S. Kraay's argument that a Levy County judge's reasoning for not dismissing a charge of being a felon in possession of a gun was flawed, but the judge's ruling was also correct and Kraay's conviction and three-year sentence stands.

The state Department of Corrections, on a campaign to implement a zero-tolerance policy for inappropriate and criminal behavior by staff, on Friday fired five employees of Lancaster Correctional Institution and an investigator recommended they be arrested.

Corrections Officers Earl Short, Stephen Nygard and Julious Riley, and Sgt. Robert La Puma, and Sgt. Brittain Williams, were dismissed for battery on an inmate, according to a DOC press release.